Missiles are smart, guided, and if these were SAM, we may have lost control of the air. If these were guided SSM this close to the Af-Pak border, our ground route that we use to get our stuff out of A-stan is threatened.

If this is a malfunction in the Iranian C4 system, and the missiles are SAM, are the resources (working C4 and missiles) all on Iran’s western border?

If these are rockets that misfired/bad C4, then is this an indicator of sanctions working on Iran’s maintenance program, or have the best resources been shipped to Syria to create Iran-West?

Or are the Iranians feeling froggy enough to waste expensive munitions? Usually the Iranians prefer to engage our forces in Iraq in infantry firefights, or IED.

#16 I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t just get trigger happy, giggle and hammer the trigger a few times until someone jumped on them. This is the same group of people that think painting a speed boat black is a super-weapon.

On a serious note. Why the hell hasn’t anyone in the WH said anything yet. /rhetorical question

And, somewhere in Iran, a forward observer is asking the Farsi equivalent of “Where’s the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM! This makes me very, very angry.”

Somewhere else in Iran, some Fire Direction Center guy is going “Whoops, I think I transposed two digits in that last azimuth…ah, nothing out that way for miles and miles except miles and miles, no biggie, right?”

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